Me too. I had that specific book. There’s a blond lady sunbathing prone with no top that had a kid drop an ice cream cone on her back. She lifted up. Some pretty serious side boob for a ten year old to encounter in the wild.

Yo hol' up, waldo never hides. We, the random cluster fucks of this earth, have decided we're all going to hate waldo for something he didn't intend?

In every single where's Waldo book, he isn't hiding. This man is visiting the most insane and exotic locations we could possibly dream off, just looking around, having a good time. Waldo is just living his life, and in some NSA level shit the public has decided we need to find this son of a bitch wherever he goes, taking mass surveillance photos and singling out key targets.

The wizard I get, that's a huge national security risk to let rogue wizards out of our supervision, but all we've done is let big publishing tell us waldo, an innocent tourist, needs to be found yesterday.

I for one condone this mass witch hunt for an innocent man, and pray you all do the same.

I've seen like 3 comments of people complaining about the bot using a whole hand and not just a finger. Its using a tiny hand because it's fucking hilarious! It's a gadget that finds Waldo, it's not that serious lol

Man, go back 10 years and this would be insane thing to say. This level of 'computer sight' was science fiction less than a decade ago, and now it's a "gadget" fit for a science fair project.

Things are getting fucking awesome. I just saw someone with a iphone 3GS the other day, and I literally laughed out loud at how tiny and terrible it was. I cannot believe we used to stand in line clear around the block for the privilege to buy something that today is essentially worthless and unsalable it's so low performance.

Isn't this just photo recognition? The software is probably looking for certain shapes, colors, glasses, hat, etc. How is this AI? The data set it is using is probably pretty simple. Facebook does this every time you upload a photo. I would argue that Facebook actually uses AI when it compares it to large data sets of images of all your friends. This looks way simpler.

Classic problem for AI, it's halflife from mindblowing to mundane is about 5 minutes. A computer that can understand your speech has gone from "game changing" to "absolutely hopeless" the moment it gets confused by an unusual grammatical construct.

Watch the first episode of Star Trek TNG and see how impressed Riker was by being able to talk to the ship's computer. When that episode first aired we believed that it would be over 300 years before a ship scale AI could recognize our speech. It took 30, and a pocket sized device that runs on batteries can do it. And people don't really even care that it exists for the most part.

I had the same thought but unless it knows pixel-for-pixel what Waldo is going to look like, it's likely using a form of AI. Like another commenter mentioned, it's become so common that we don't appreciate it as AI anymore

What do you think AI is? It encompasses a ton of different specialties that allow computers to do different things. AI consists of machine learning, deep learning, inferencing - all just pieces of the artificial intelligence pie that boils down to "computer learns to do the thing."

Neural networks used for image recongition are modern AI. No human is hard coding what to look for. Instead the computer is given a data set, and answers then "teaches" itself until it's always correct. Then you feed it new data and get the answer.

It's pretty crazy that no one can tell you exactly what the computer is doing.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, because I don't know... but yeah, every time I see anything labelled AI where I have some understanding of how it's done, or I've done a bit of similar coding on myself... I then wonder... "does that really count as AI?".

That robot looks like I feel when I lay on my arm wrong and it goes to sleep then I try to scratch my face in the morning, but I can’t feel my hand and I think that some stranger is clumsily jabbing me in the face and I freak out then I realize what happened and am equal parts relieved and embarrassed